Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Progress numero dos!
So I read this article (more like Wikipedia if that is even considered and article?) about how christiannity was banned from public high schools. The court case was Engel v. Vitale in 1962. The parents of some of the students at Herrick High School brought up the case because they felt that when the school prayer to Almighty God was offending them because contradicted thier religious beliefs. So Congress said that having this prayer was unconnstitutional because it violated the First Amendment. i just thought this was interesting because I had nev er known how the whole no prayer in schools began.
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BRITTNAEE!
Ok so I have always been interested in this topic as well. I think it's a complicated issue. I never really knew how this whole issue started either. I understand why some people would not want to say almighty god, or why some people would like the one nation under god to be taken out of the pledge allegiance. But, in my personal opinion, things like the pledge of allegiance should not be changed, just to keep it the way it has always been. Christianity in schools is a really interesting topic, and I want to read your paper when you are finished! I don't know if you can use this in your paper, but recently there was a story about Islam in schools in California I think, which you could reasearch and maybe use? It was really interesting it has to do with religion in schools in general. Good luckk chica!
Hey Britt!
I think it is interesting too. When I first started reading your post, I was like.. "what is she talking about" hahaha. Personally, I believe religion should not be incorporated with education. (Similar to how I don't realy believe in religion in government.) Well, I mean, unless the parents choose to send their children to like a catholic school. I never really had thought about this topic because it never really affected me in any way since my family was never really religous... So I probably am not the best one to give you an opinion on this topic, BUT I think you will write a great paper on this topic and it should be very interesting!
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